Laser Stands - What does everybody use?

[White-Light]

In so far as its difficult to tell from a photo, I personally don't think that the Mobil LG29 looks as well made as the ST132. The only thing I do like is found on the more expensive versions - those large rubber feet. Anything that adds stability has to be good. Pity American DJ don't have add on feet for extra stability.

Anyway my purchase is temporarily on hold, but I'm leaning towards an St 132 at the moment. The extra £30 looks worth it.

As for mounting bracket, I'm not sure of the solution, I'm inclined to thing a rectangle to mount the laser in would still give the best solution of centring gravity and enabling tilt to be applied. Only issue is strength and cost.

Apologies for my poor photo shopping but this is what I envisaged for mounting (probably with a narrower square):

[FourDee]

White-Light, did you notice my post earlier?
Something like that would probably be the easiest solution for you ...

[Jem]

Al, you don't need to go that elaborate.

Just look at the hanger that's already on your projector. Turn this upside down so it looks like a letter 'U', now just mount the base of the 'U' onto your stand with a strong bolt

This eliminates the need for the big rectangle thingy

[White-Light]

White-Light, did you notice my post earlier?
Something like that would probably be the easiest solution for you ...

Yeah my reply seems to have disappeared, don't know how that happened.

Anyway, I was wondering about cooling if you inverted the whole laser projector. Wouldn't the heat from the lasers add to the heat in the amp section?

Alternatively, did you mean just taking off and fitting the bracket from the base instead of the top (assuming here this can be done as haven't looked).

@ Jem, I think my line immediately above is what you were suggesting. I don't know if it can be done but I'll certainly look. Do I take it you had one custom made because your projector didn't have a bracket or at least a suitable one as standard?

[Insanity]

I contacted the company. They're made by (Belgium? ) Company Mobil Truss as opposed to the ST132 which is made by the US company Global Truss.

Unless it's a big brand, I don't think the company name means much at all these days... My trussing and tripods were branded as Dural, now the same system is branded American DJ and guess what,,, it's made in China... So the name is just different branding on the self same product...

One point I forgot to mention is that the feet of the tripods are slotted, so you can bolt or peg them down for stability...

Mark

[FourDee]

Yeah my reply seems to have disappeared, don't know how that happened.

Anyway, I was wondering about cooling if you inverted the whole laser projector. Wouldn't the heat from the lasers add to the heat in the amp section?

Alternatively, did you mean just taking off and fitting the bracket from the base instead of the top (assuming here this can be done as haven't looked).

@ Jem, I think my line immediately above is what you were suggesting. I don't know if it can be done but I'll certainly look. Do I take it you had one custom made because your projector didn't have a bracket or at least a suitable one as standard?

Don't think it will make that much difference. The air in the top section can not go into the amp section anyway. Conduction happens either way. And the amp section is ventilated.

I have 2 lasers in these cases : http://www.synchrovision.co.uk/produ...canners-28kpps and I've used them upside down and sideways for literally days on end without problems.

But if you are really worried about it, you could invert the bracket easily. Just screw out the knobs, then the screws in the middle, flip the bracket and then put the screws back in.

[White-Light]

For stands the ST 132 Global Truss is the best for the money IMO.

To mount the projector on the stand I use the Odyssey Speaker Adapter. Works fine and not expensive.

Do I take it you attach the adapter permanently to the laser bracket therefore and just sit the adapter onto the top of the stand and tighten to fit it (as opposed to having the adapter permanently on the stand and trying to attach the bracket to the adapter)?

[norty303]

I think you can do it whichever way works best for you Al.

[Jem]

Alternatively, did you mean just taking off and fitting the bracket from the base instead of the top (assuming here this can be done as haven't looked).

@ Jem, I think my line immediately above is what you were suggesting. I don't know if it can be done but I'll certainly look. Do I take it you had one custom made because your projector didn't have a bracket or at least a suitable one as standard?

Yep, that's pretty much what I was suggesting. However, the mounting bolts on the side of my projector are about two thirds of the way up so I couldn't just invert the bracket as it wouldn't fit. I had one made locally. Also, I had it made with slots instead of holes so I don't have to unscrew the bolts on the side of the projector all the way out. I just screw 'em out part way and 'slot' it on to the bracket which is rigidly fixed to my stand by a big bolt

[White-Light]

Bought the St132.

Just waiting now.

Thanks for everyone's advice.